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Zorro

(16,596 posts)
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 08:14 AM 6 hrs ago

Ladies, it's time to hand the country back to men

It’s our last hurrah before masculine energy returns.

You may have heard that a new president will be inaugurated on Monday.

By Donald Trump’s side, reportedly, will be the billionaire Founding Fathers of our exciting oligarchy. This includes Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, who has rebranded by cutting baby bangs and wearing chains last seen on a Zales truck. As part of this macho makeover, which includes a rejection of fact-checking and a green light for hate speech, the Meta overlord declared that businesses in America should return to a more “masculine” energy.

“I think a lot of the corporate world is pretty culturally neutered,” Zuck told fellow noted Caucasian man Joe Rogan. “Masculine energy is good, and obviously, society has plenty of that, but I think corporate culture was really trying to get away from it. I think having a culture that celebrates the aggression a bit more has its own merits that are really positive.”

So true. Men have been ignored for too long. As the nation writes this next chapter, it is crucial to refocus our attention on them. After all, we have been allowed to have credit cards in our own names since, what, 1974? And women run a whole 10% of Fortune 500 companies. What are we even whining about?

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2025/01/17/ladies-its-time-hand-country-back-men-column/
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Ladies, it's time to hand the country back to men (Original Post) Zorro 6 hrs ago OP
Mark "Dead Eyes" Zuckerberg is a manly man. sop 5 hrs ago #1
Toxic testosterone Walleye 5 hrs ago #2
OMG Walleye you made me spit my coffee out Diamond_Dog 5 hrs ago #5
I don't want to see that. Ray Bruns 4 hrs ago #6
Based on how loudly they protesteth, I doubt there is much to see! MLAA 4 hrs ago #8
I'll get my magnifying glass. TBA 4 hrs ago #11
This type of approach Beck23 4 hrs ago #13
The best way to do something isn't always the most efficient way. In fact most the time it isn't. Walleye 2 hrs ago #21
I envision a Goldfinger like scenario, where lady crop dusters spray female hormones across the Capitol surfered 5 hrs ago #3
That is the kind of thinking outside of the box that I like Walleye 2 hrs ago #22
Man it up, boys. Don't let those other big-talking bully bros make you feel small and weird. Throw women under the bus-- Timeflyer 5 hrs ago #4
Yeah. We've given you a week and you haven't solved anything. We get to try Wonder Why 4 hrs ago #7
I'm having a real hard time to even come up with a sarcastic comment... MiHale 4 hrs ago #9
Poor Poor Men... (sniff sniff) TBA 4 hrs ago #10
Going back in evolution Beck23 4 hrs ago #12
Yeah! Let 'em enigmania 3 hrs ago #14
Women need to stop feeding the monster in those men. And stop partnering in the manly men's daily lives. BComplex 3 hrs ago #15
What we women need is an Amazon nation of our own nt Wicked Blue 3 hrs ago #16
This longing for a fake 1957 SARose 3 hrs ago #17
Women must be overjoyed that they Submariner 3 hrs ago #18
I love sarcasm Hoosier_Progressiv 3 hrs ago #19
"Masculine energy." dchill 3 hrs ago #20

sop

(11,927 posts)
1. Mark "Dead Eyes" Zuckerberg is a manly man.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 08:42 AM
5 hrs ago

"Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, has a blue belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ). He was promoted to blue belt on July 22, 2023 by his coach, Dave Camarillo, a legendary BJJ black belt. Zuckerberg has been training in BJJ and MMA since the COVID-19 lockdown. Zuckerberg has competed in jiu-jitsu tournaments, winning a gold medal in the Nogi Master 1 White Belt Feather Weight Division and a silver medal in the Gi Master 2 White Belt Feather Weight Division."

Walleye

(36,897 posts)
2. Toxic testosterone
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 08:54 AM
5 hrs ago

I wish they would just haul their dicks out and measure them in public. Geeze

Beck23

(294 posts)
13. This type of approach
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:19 AM
4 hrs ago

Is what sent American jobs to China, and desires to bring in an army of H-1Bs to take American jobs.

Walleye

(36,897 posts)
21. The best way to do something isn't always the most efficient way. In fact most the time it isn't.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:33 AM
2 hrs ago

I refuse to bow down to the god of efficiency. You don’t want to be efficient when you’re having sex or eating or drinking. Sure business should be carried out in a business-like way, but efficiency is not always best.

surfered

(4,148 posts)
3. I envision a Goldfinger like scenario, where lady crop dusters spray female hormones across the Capitol
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 08:55 AM
5 hrs ago

…and save our country from toxic masculinity.

Walleye

(36,897 posts)
22. That is the kind of thinking outside of the box that I like
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:35 AM
2 hrs ago

Of course, they already think we spike their food with hormones.

Timeflyer

(2,769 posts)
4. Man it up, boys. Don't let those other big-talking bully bros make you feel small and weird. Throw women under the bus--
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 09:03 AM
5 hrs ago

they're used to it, and it makes your inner primate hoot with pleasure.

And what happened to the cage match fight proposed between Zuck and Musk? Talk about masculine energy!

Wonder Why

(4,821 posts)
7. Yeah. We've given you a week and you haven't solved anything. We get to try
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 09:45 AM
4 hrs ago

for another 10, 000 years.

😁

MiHale

(10,983 posts)
9. I'm having a real hard time to even come up with a sarcastic comment...
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:03 AM
4 hrs ago

Don’t think this has ever happened to me.

TBA

(840 posts)
10. Poor Poor Men... (sniff sniff)
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:11 AM
4 hrs ago

White men have suffered enough! Women and minorities demanding equal rights is just too cruel!

Beck23

(294 posts)
12. Going back in evolution
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:14 AM
4 hrs ago

Humans evolved when they learned how to work together in groups. Even the Lone Ranger had Tonto.

enigmania

(242 posts)
14. Yeah! Let 'em
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:32 AM
3 hrs ago

pick the bones from the carcass of democracy. Bonus: they get to marginalize millions of people in the process. (bastards)

BComplex

(9,193 posts)
15. Women need to stop feeding the monster in those men. And stop partnering in the manly men's daily lives.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:58 AM
3 hrs ago

But some women like it.

Evangelicals.



SARose

(994 posts)
17. This longing for a fake 1957
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:03 AM
3 hrs ago

is incomprehensible to me because I lived it.

My Mother never wore a dress, pearls, stockings (not panty hose) to clean house.

My Mother wore shorts in the house during the summer because we didn’t have AC in Texas. There was always a wrap around skirt on the back of the couch in case someone knocked on the door.

I think back to the backyard barbecues, holiday parties, birthday parties, etc. and now I understand why they drank.

More importantly, my Mother never worked outside the home after she told the bank she was pregnant with me.

If these fools want 1950s wives - by all means let’s accommodate them. Stay home. Let these MAGA husbands pay the bills on THEIR salary alone.

A day without a woman sounds good to me.👍

Submariner

(12,750 posts)
18. Women must be overjoyed that they
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:06 AM
3 hrs ago

are going to be taken care of the next 4 years whether they like it or not!

dchill

(40,916 posts)
20. "Masculine energy."
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:15 AM
3 hrs ago

"Being a dick." There's already a surfeit of masculine energy, as the 2024 election has shown.

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